**PRINCIPAL      EXECUTIVE OFFICER CERTIFICATION**

|   | a. | Designed                such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure                controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to                ensure                that material information relating to the Registrant, including its                consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those                entities, particularly during the period in which this report is                being                prepared; |
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|   | b. |  Designed such internal control over financial              reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting              to be              designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding              the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial              statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted              accounting principles; |
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|   | c. | Evaluated                the effectiveness of the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures                and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness                of                the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period                covered by this report based on such evaluation;                and |
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|   | d. | Disclosed                in this report any change in the Registrant’s internal control over                financial reporting that occurred during the Registrant's most recent                fiscal quarter (the Registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an                annual                report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to                materially affect, the Registrant’s internal control over financial                reporting; and |
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|   | a. | All                significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or                operation of internal control over financial reporting which are                reasonably likely to adversely affect the Registrant’s ability to record,                process, summarize and report financial data;                and |
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|   | b. | Any                fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other                employees who have a significant role in the Registrant’s internal control                over financial reporting. |
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|  Date:              November 22nd              ,              2007 |                                                                                                                                |                                                   |
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|                                                                    |                                                                                                                                     | By:              /s/ Miguel Nuno da Mata Patricio |
|                                                                    | Name:                Miguel Nuno da Mata PatricioTitle:                  Chief Executive Officer for North                  America |